Sr. Java Lead with Kafka - Lead Experience is Mandatory

Title: Lead Java Developer Newark, NJ (Onsite) 6+ months What You'll Get to Do: Lead the development, deployment, and management of sophisticated API solutions using AWS …

• 2 months ago, The Lead Java Developer is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology…
• 16 days ago, Job Description: The Lead Full Stack Java Developer - is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in …
• 15 days ago

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience (Computer Science preferred).
• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering with 5+ years of applied experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical designs and engineering requirements.
• Strong experience with Core Java, object-oriented design, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, and No SQL.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and use of SDLC tooling to improve development and testing efficiency (Jira, Jenkins, Git, JUnit, Selenium, linting tools).

Qualifications (preferred):

• Experience partnering effectively with technology teams and product owners to drive end-to-end delivery.
• Experience planning and managing Scrum teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, prioritizing backlogs, and enabling team delivery.
• Experience building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable systems leveraging clustering and load balancing across web/app servers and messaging systems (Kafka).
• Practical cloud-native experience.
• Container-based development and orchestration; microservices frameworks and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger).
• Cloud and container-based development experience (e.g., Gaia, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Reactive programming experience (e.g., Spring Flux).
• Streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark).
• NoSQL / Big Data stores (Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Cloudera stack, HBase); experience optimizing Cassandra is a plus.
• Banking and payments domain experience.

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